Dr. Marcelo Galleguillos & Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey | Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems (PLUS) / Joseph Molloy & Prof. Dr. Kay Axhausen | Institute for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT)

Toward an Urban Policy Analysis

A new Symposium called «Toward an Urban Policy Analysis» is out in PS: Political Science & Politics edited by David Kaufmann and Mara Sidney (Rutgers University). The Symposium aims to develop theoretical foundations for an urban policy analysis built from urban empirical work.

New Version of the Law

The content of the film is only available in German. In 1976, the first draft of a Federal law on spatial planning was rejected by the people. The Delegate for Spatial Planning, Marius Baschung, explained the differences between the first draft and the subsequent work on a second More

Back to a Healthy Amount

The content of the film is only available in German. On June 13th, 1976, a referendum was held on the first draft of a Federal law on spatial planning. The draft law was rejected. Link to the archives of SRF    

Joint Planning

The content of the film is only available in German. In his speech, Federal Councillor Furgler pleaded for a responsible co-operation between private investors and the public authorities in the field of spatial planning. Link to the archives of SRF

Decentral Concentration

The content of the film is only available in German. Since the 1950s, Switzerland had been pursuing a strategy of “decentral concentration”. In 1965, the ORL Institute of the ETH Zurich was commissioned to develop models and leitmotifs for the settlement of Switzerland. By 1971 they were available More

The crisis of the Swiss City

The content of the film is only available in German. At the beginning of 1960s, a marked out-migration of people from Zurich began, which lasted until the 1990s, as new living space was created on a grand scale in the Limmat Valley and Glatt Valley. Link to the More

Landscape Conservation

The content of the film is only available in German. The Swiss Foundation for Landscape Protection was founded in 1970 by Pro Natura, Swiss Heritage Protection, the Swiss Association for National Planning, the Swiss Alpine Club and the Swiss Tourism Association. In 1972, the Federal Decree on Urgent More

Fourteen short films revisit the original sites of selected Ballenberg buildings to see how they look today, providing an excellent illustration of how Swiss settlements have changed over the last sixty years.